Ian C. Johnston

Ian C. Johnston (born September 27, 1938) is a Canadian author and translator, a retired university-college instructor and a professor emeritus at Vancouver Island University.
Early life and education
Johnston was born in Valparaíso, Chile, to Dorothy and Kenneth Johnston. He attended the University of Toronto Schools during his high school years. At the post-secondary level, he was educated at McGill University, Montreal (BSC in Geology and Chemistry 1959); at the University of Bristol (BA in English and Greek, 1968); and at the University of Toronto (MA in English, 1969).
He holds certificates from Ontario College of Education, Heidelberg University, and the Jarvis School of Welding.
Teaching career
Johnston taught high-school physics and chemistry at Upper Canada College, Toronto (1959–60) and high-school biology, mathematics, and Latin at Port Perry High School, Port Perry, Ontario (1961-1963). From 1969-70 he taught undergraduate English courses at the University of British Columbia. After that he joined the faculty of the College of New Caledonia, Prince George, British Columbia, where he taught undergraduate English and Classics from 1970 to 1975. From 1975-2004 he taught at Malaspina College and Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo (now Vancouver Island University).
Publications and other work
Johnston is the author of The Ironies of War: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (University Press of America, 1987). He has translated classic works from Greek, Latin, German, and French. Several of these translated works have been published by Broadview Press, including his translation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and/or produced as audiobooks by Naxos Audio Books in the UK.
A number of his translations have also been issued in book form by Richer Resources Publications. Johnston has posted over 75 essays and lectures on various literary topics on his website, as well as workbooks on essay writing, grammar, statistics, and the history of science.
Johnston has also written Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays, released by Broadview Press in 2015.
Translations by Ian Johnston
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Aeschylus, Persians
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus, Suppliant Women
Aristophanes, Birds
Aristophanes, Clouds
Aristophanes, Frogs
Aristophanes, Knights
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Aristophanes, Peace
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Abridged)
Cuvier, On the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth
Diderot, D’Alembert's Dream
Diderot, Rameau's Nephew
Descartes, Discourse on Method
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Euripides, Bacchae
Euripides, Electra
Euripides, Medea
Euripides, Orestes
Homer, Iliad (complete and abridged)
Homer, Odyssey (complete and abridged)
Homer, The Odyssey: Selections (Broadview Edition 2019)
Kafka, Metamorphosis, Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Broadview Edition 2015)
Kant, On Perpetual Peace
Kant, Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens
Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy, Volume I
Lucretius, The Nature of Things
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Rousseau, On the Sciences and the Arts
Rousseau, On the Origin of Inequality
Rousseau, Social Contract
Sophocles, Ajax
Sophocles, Antigone
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Sophocles, Philoctetes
Wedekind, Castle Wetterstein (Broadview Edition 2019)
Personal life
Johnson lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, with his wife, Colleen Johnston.
References
External links
1938 births
Academic staff of Vancouver Island University
Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian translators
Chilean emigrants to Canada
Chilean people of British descent
Living people
McGill University Faculty of Science alumni
People from Valparaíso
Chilean non-fiction writers
Translators of Homer
Translators of Friedrich Nietzsche
Male non-fiction writers
University of Toronto alumni